Survey: Organizations holding back on cloud adoption due to security concerns

Fears that cloud computing does not offer adequate security for sensitive data is causing corporate customers to hesitate in adopting cloud services. Despite the current hype surrounding cloud computing, only 15 percent of 300 corporations surveyed worldwide have adopted or are in the process of adopting cloud technology over the course of next year.

Surveyed participants ranged from companies with just more than 100 users to large enterprises across various industries. One IT manager summed up the pervading sentiment on security: "The idea that I would trust my email, financial transactions, or other day-to-day business operations to cloud computing is just asking for trouble."

In many ways, we are already leveraging cloud computing in the form of Gmail and cloud-based storage, and ant spam services. Yet one doesn't typically see concern being expressed over the security of these services. I suppose it will take some time yet before more people get comfortable with this paradigm, though it is clear that the cloud is here to stay.

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